Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 8 December 1893 — Page 4

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FRIDAJ, DECEMBER 8, 1893.

THE SUGAR BOUNTY RECOGNIZED. It has often been said that all the legislation of the Republican party is finally approved by the Democratic party, and there is no instance of this habit of the Democratic leaders stronger than the way the new tariff bill just made public, deals with sugar. The McKinley bill put raw sugar on the free list and provided that a bounty of about two cents per pound Bhould be paid for the production of sugar in this country, for a period of fourteen years. The aew bill leaves sugar ou the free list, just as McKinley provided, and it also recognizes the principle of giving enoonragement to the home prcdnotion of •agar, by paying a bounty therefor, just as the McKinley bill recognizes the principle. The only change made is that the ibounty shall be gradually reduoed after 1895 by one-eighth each year until 1302, when it shall cease altogether. This gradual reduction will probably have the effeot to oheck the growtn of sugar manufacture in this oountry. If the principle of encouraging the production of sugar, especially beat sugar, by bounties is right, we think It will occur to all that the sooner we get enough factories to supply the whole demand, the better it will be. The change, therefore, made in the McKinley bounty is altogether unwarranted, and perhaps would never have been made except for the reason that Democratic leaders had fdenounced the McKinley bounty as an unexcusable outrage and felt the necessity of some change. The Committee of Wais and Means in this instnnce at leaBt seems to have done what Bonrke Cochran pre dieted to a friend privately would be done when he said that the McKinley law would be repealed and that then another as cearlj like it as possibie, would be enacted under a new name It will be recollected that the entire Democratic delegation voted against the McKinley sugar schedule when it was before the House, bounty and all but now that a few years have served to demonstrate the wisdom of McKinley's sugar schedule, as the wisdom of nearly all Republican legislation has been demonstrated, we find the Democratic Ways and Means Committee indorsing substantially what McKinley and the Republican party did when they put sugar on the free list, and gave a bounty to the sugar niBkers. And now we feel pretty sure that when the new bill comes before Congress the sugar provision will be amended and the McKinley bill left just as it ie. And if so the Democratic Congress will do the wisest thing it ever did or ever will do.

THE only people to be thought ot' in connection with the tariff are the producers. Consumers have no rights.—Indianapolis Newts.

As Artemus Ward would say, "this is sarkasm." But when faced with the fact that the consumers are having the great majority of the rights between them and the producers, ihe effect is entirely lost. The thought that the News wanted to convey was that the ^tariff was framed altogether for manu faoturers and not for those who buy the finished product. But it shot wide of the mark. The producers are the laborers who work in the thousands of factories. There is nothing for them to do now because there is a party in power that favors buying all manufactured goods from abroad. The News had better ascertain who the "producers" are, pick its flint and shoot again.

IN an eleotion for Congressmen the vote of Judge Harney, a staunch and honest Democrat, has over five times the power of the vote of Judge Snyder, an equally staunch and honest Repub lican. But there is nothing honest about the system which makes such inequalities possible. This injustice is caused by the dishonest gerrymander. It oan be effectually prevented by the enactment of a proportional representation law.

DUBING November the public debt was increased $6,716,198. It is high time that Democrats were devising some scheme to increase the revenue instead of floundering about in the endeavor to decrease it.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. A large portion of the space of THE JOUBNAII is surrendered this week to give place to the President's message. It is a long document and is chiefly de voted to a review of departmental work, most of which has already been given to the country. Its chief interest centers on what the President has to

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Hawaiian affairs, the finances, pensions and the tariff. The President's Paramount Commissioner Blount having said that the Hawaiian horse is sixteen feet high this statement is repeated in the message with emphasis. If any doubt existed as to the President's instructions to Minister Willis to overthrow the existing recognized government at Honolulu and restore the Queen they were removed by the language of the message. Whether Mr. Willis has carried out his instructions the President does not know, but "additional advices are ex pected soon."

On the financial question the President gives no hint that he favors larger use of silver, but rather emphasizes bis gold monometallic position and admonishes Congress to "resolutely turn away from alluring and temporary ex psdients, determined to be content with nothing less than a lasting and comprehensive financial plan." Which of course means gold and nothing but gold.

In regard to pensions the President repeats his former well-known views, and utterB that hoary lie that "thousands of neighborhoods have their well known fraudulent pensioners." The expressions of Mr. Cleveland about "brave and deserving pensioners" are nothing but driveling hypocrisy, and that portion of the message devoted to thie question is too gauzy for intelligent and patriotic men to view it in any other light.

On the tariff Mr. Cleveland seems to have learned nothing from the "object lesson" now presented by the country. Notwithstanding the thousands of idle mills and mines and the ten of thousands of unemployed men, all as a consequence of the threat to smash the tariff, the President, with bull like tenacity, still harps upon "tariff reform," whatever that may mean. He sommends the Wilson bill, a bill that pleases nobody except the President, which is sufficient evidence that it had its inspiration in the White House.

MR. CLEVELAND'S VAGARIES. Mr. Cleveland, in his late message, gives utterance to the following:

Manifestly, if we are to aid the people directly through tariff reform, one of its mostobvious features should be the a reduction in present tariff charges upon the necessaries of life. The benefits of such a reduction would be palpable and substantial, seen and felt by thousands who would be better fed and better clothed and beiter slioPered. These gifts should be the williugbeiiel'actionsof a government whose highest function is the promotion of the welfare of the people.

Neither Mr. Cleveland nor any other man on earth, nor the angels in heaven, nor demons below, oan point out a single necessary of life that is any dearer in price to the people than it WBB before the McKinley bill was passed. What are the necessaries of life? If Mr. Cleveland were required to sit down and write out a list of the necessaries of life that were not as oheap now as they were before the passage of the present protective tariff, he could not, if it were to save his life, name one. Does he hope to find people in this country who can read his message, and who are yet ignorant enough to be imposed on by such stuff as he has written? Mr. Cleveland cannot be ignorant of the fact that clothing was never before as cheap as it is now, unless he woefully shuts his

to facts within the observation

of everybody else in the country. If clothing is one of the necesBarieB of life, then Mr. Cleveland's solicitude as to cheap clothing is utterly without foundation. Sugar was put on the free list by McKinley, and there Mr. Cleveland leave* it, and it is another necessary of life that is cheaper than it was.

Any carpenter in the country will tell Mr. Cleveland that there has never been a time in this country when a poor man could build himself a comfortable house for so small a sum of money. Bread is cheaper than it has been for thirty years. Bacon and lard are a little higher than they were before the McKinley bill was passed, but Mr. Clevewill hardly have the courage to tell the farmers that his policy is going to cheapen hogs and hog products. The people of the country have detected the sophistry in this oft repeated olaim of Mr. Cleveland, and a majority of 81,000 voters let him know it at the late election in Ohio. But he does not heed their rebuke. He sticks to the theory that the tariff is a tax and if it were demonstrated with mathematical certainty that such iB not the fact—and we think this has been done—he would not believe it. It is one of the strange idiosyncrasies of Mr. Cleveland that he will persist in believing things that he knows are not so and this peculiarity in some of our statesmen is always getting the oountry into trouble.

MR. YOUNT'S WORDS OF WISDOM. While the tariff on wool is being again agitated we recall a conversation we had a few years ago with the late Dan Yount. He is remembered by all who knew him as a man with a clear heud and the best of judgment in matters that effected hie business, his neighborhood or his country. His rare good sense was shown in the successful establishment of his woolen factory four miles west of this city, nestled in the hills of Sugar Creek. His acts of charity bestowed upon the poor and needy and the soldier, are monuments enough to keep his name ever dear to the people of Montgomery county.

The conversation referred to above was one the writer had with him iu regard to the tariff on wool. He was asked for reasons why he favored a tariff on wool when it seemed that he would be in favor of getting it abroad free of duty. His answer was not off hand by any means. He knew from years of experience whereof he spoke. As a careful manager he studied his business in all its phases until he mastered it. He enjoyed conversing with his friends and was not afraid to make known his convictions nor to tell how he arrived at them. He was in favor of a tariff on wool and his reasons were the fruits of long study. He recognized the fact that we oonld not buy our wool from foreign nations and at the same time raise sheep here at a profit. He said that every farm in Montgomery county ought to have a flock of sheep on it that it was better for the farm and that the business properly managed as one one of the industries would furnish labor for many people who would otherwise be idle that at the time of the year whsn wool was placed on the market the farmer had but little else to sell and that in this one respect it was a great benefit that he, as a manufacturer of woolen goods, felt more certain that his faotory would run all the year if he saw the wool growing on every farm around him than if he had to buy it in markets of South America and Australia. He was in favor of any measure that tended to make the farmer more prosperous^ knowing that when the farmer had plenty to sell without having to compete with products of cheaper countries, that everything else prospered in proportion. He said in particular that ever farmer ought to be encouraged to raise sheep and even if the price of wool was a little higher, he would rather buy it at his door than to depend on a lower priced article thousands of miles away. Again, he said that if he was compelled to depend solely on the foreign wool that ever so small a thing as a storm at sea might be the means of closing his factory for weeiis, causing not only loss to him but to the many men and girls who made their entire living in his factory. Above all other grounds he was in favor of the wool tariff from patriotic reasons saying that we should not legislate in such a way as to destroy an industry in which so many people were interested that it lessened our independence and threw us upon the mercies of other countries that in case of wars or famines abroad we would be left without the means of clothing ourselves.

Such were the reaBons of one who studied the wool question, and the interests of all that great army of people interested in it, and who doubts the wisdom found therein. It is almost a calamity that such men are cut off from their usefulness by legislation framed by men who never saw a sheep.

MOUNTEBANKS VS. CHARLATANSIt is an easy task to demolish the mis statements of an antagonist if armed with the facts, Commissioner of Pensions Lochren having wiped out expriest Rudolph with a stroke of the pen because of a few reckless statements whioh every intelligent man in his audience knew to be untrue, it will be in order now for the ex-priest to turn on the Commissioner and call time. His wriggling and lying since hehaB been in the Pension Bureau would put to shaone the ancient and noble Baron Munchausen. Dropping the names of thousands and thousands of worthy and honorable soldiers from the pension rolls without the authority of- law, and then slandering the men who periled their lives for three and four years as an excuse for his action stamps him as a mountebank and a charlatan. The fact that many of these same men have been restored to the rolls without any additional evidence is a self acknowledgment of his charlatanry. Commissioner Lochren is not the man to accuse another of tnountebankery. Brother should not go to law against brother.

THEBE are still a good many desirable places left in the diplomatic and consular service. Con Cunningham is still hanging on to the willows dispensing the drinks in a most lavish manner in the expectation that some of this fruit will drop in his basket when thoroughly ripe.

Better Come and See Us. Strictly One-Price.

STRUxGTOWN.

New is scarce this week. Meeting going on at Kingsley Chnpel. Rev. Northcutt visited R. Evans Monday.

Lee Jackson visited in Ladoga Monday. John Williams' cattle are still in the road.

A Linn shipped four cars of sheep this week. Chas. Clark visited W. Callahan on Sunday.

Chris Walkup visited at R. Evans' Saturday. Everett Linn is marketing his wheat this week.

Frank Evans is marketing his hogs this week. Edward MoCarty worked for Mike Johnson Monday.

Chas. Linn says there is coal oil in the Hutchinson hill. Mrs. Jennie Wright and Mrs. Fannie Connor visited in Ladoga Monday.

Fred Kincaid Bays he got in a fight and bit a man's nose off and a week after struck the same nose with his dinner bucket.

The new preaoher will move to Mace soon. About 40 head of stock got into his farm and ate 100 bushels of oheap Democratic wheat and several head of stock were foundered.

NEWMARKET.

Mrs. Brown visited her son at Rockville last week. Mesdames Wilhite and Fletcher are on the sick list.

The school is preparing for an entertainment Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Glover spent Thanksgiving at Waveland.

George Rush goes to Rockville as a section boss, Monday. Hintie Wray spent Thanksgiving with her sister at Terre Haute.

Mrs. Jose Hoagland, of Dalton, Fla., is visiting relatives in this vicinity. Nora Hicks, Bertha Warbritton and Anna Dickerson attended the convention at Terre Haute last week.

GARl'lELl)•

Ten degrees below zero. A1 Smith is on the sick list. New store nearly ready for occupancy. The coons are holed up sucking their paws and the doctors are at rest.

Preaching at Garfield every third Sunday in each month by Rev. A. W. Wainscott.

Henry and John Thornburgh, two of our old reliable citizens, are sick with the grip.

Oyster supper at Garfield next Saturday night, Dec. 9, for the benefit of the church. Everybody invited to come and have a good time and help a good

MAEIUXCII.

Jackson Harwood is on the mend. S. M. Guntle, of Yountsville, was here Friday.

Wm. Coons is building an addition to his barn. Henry Coons WBB in Crawfordsville Tuesday.

George Grubbs took dinner Sunday with Wm. Hardy. Sherman Vanoleave took dinner with Mr. Trotter Sunday.

D. C. Ballman had a family oyster supper Monday night. Prayer meeting at the U. B. church every Thursday night.

James Tyler, of New Market, vieited his daughter, Miss Coons, Tuesday. John Miles, of Waveland, was in the neighborhood this week buying furs.

ELMDALE

Health generally good. Ed Goff is able to be out after a spell of stomach trouble.

Willie Cox is going to Illinois for a two or three weeks' visit. Will Baldwin and wife were guests of Fry Thomas one day this week.

If you want the best county paper subscribe for THE JOUBNATJ at once. James Quick has purchased a base burner and will burn coal this winter.

Charley Pittenger has traded his track mare. Nancy Hanks, for a shotgun.

Henry Vancleave thinks of accepting a position in a barbershop at New Richmond.

James Rankin's house burned last Saturday and everything in it except two beds.

Wesley Grubbs* last Friday visited Jack Harwood, at Balhinch, who is very sick with lung fever.

Mrs. Joseph Swank fell last week and hurt her right arm so bad that she has no use of it although no bones were broken.

A girl baby arrived at Charley Har­

KILLED IT DEAD!

That is what Jake Joel, the Clothier, did to high prices. He pays no rent and having bought his goods of factories that were on the verge of breaking, he can undersell and does undersell all competition. That is at panic prices robody else can touch..

dollar will buy as much as two dollars would buy a year ago. Prove it by calling.

Jak:e Joel

mon's on Nov. 29. One day later and it would have been a Thanksgiving present.

Ralph Vancleave sold his hogs to William Deere Saturday at $5.25 a hundred. He said thev were the beet hogs he had bought this fall.

LAPL.ANIK

Mrs. Hattie James visited the capital last week. Billy Wray moved to his new home the last of last week.

Sam Hester attended to business last Thursday in the city. The most of our neighbors ate Thanksgiving at home this year.

Aunt Jose Hester spent Thanksgiving with Mrs, Winnie Henkel.

John Hampton and family visited at Aunt Nancy Johnson's last Wednesday. Some of our citizens attended the sale of Abigail Davis at the city last Friday.

The Pairview Detective Co. met last Monday in regular quarterly meeting. Louis Browning moved to his new home last Thursday on the farm Billy Wray vacated.

Mrs. Jose Hogan, of Georgia, Is visiting her aunt. Jose Hester, and other relatives in this locality.

James R. Hester got the third prize at the corn show at Ladoga given by James Knox. He received 12.

Mrs. Bell Brush had a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving day and quite a little crowd of her relatives partook.

Charley Doyle was the first man to pafs through here with his sleigh and sleigh bells last Sunday morning.

James Brush wants to sell his little farm near this piace and buy some land close to some town and tend garden.

This winter is the first time the door of our school house was ever broken down by the teacher when the children turned hini out to get him to treat. Shams!

Miss Maude James and Miss Eva Service moved their things To Ladoga last Monday, where they will rent a room and do tbeir own work and go to school the balance of the winter.

Lambert Smith returned home last Monday morning from feeding his stock down in the Davis pasture in time to save his house from burning, as the stove door had come open and some large coals of fire bad just fallen and commenced to burn.

If you want good reading matter and plenty of it that is right to the point subscribe to THE JOUKSAI., the best paper in the county for the news. Leave your name with W. M. Davis, the legal agent at Lapland, and he will see that you get your paper all right.

CLORE'S GROVE.

Hunting is the order of the day. Otis Fruits is the inventor of a new rabbit trap.

Charley Pickett and son are still gathering corn. Frank Ingersol is boarding at Elbert Hughes'.

Gus Mussers spent Sunday with Samuel Bruner's. Otis Fruits and Ed Smith spent Sunday rabbet hunting.

Michaels, the regular huxter, was here again this week, Mike Rudicel, of Wallace, was in our midst this week.

Otis Fruits furnished a fine driving horse at Jamestown last week. Rhoden Ham transacted business in Waynetown on last Tuesday.

Gus Musser attended the horse meeting at Hillsborough last Saturday. Rev. Horton filled his regular appointment at Alamo on last Sunday.

Wm. S. Ham went to Crawfordsville last Saturday on important business. Stella Chaney, .f Cayuga, is visiting friends and relatives here this week.

There was a "family reunion" at the home of David Smith on Thanksgiving. The supper at the M. E. church of Alamo on Thanksgiving evening, was a success,

Mrs. Belle Parrish and son Perl spent Thanksgiving with frienJs at Waynetown. Mrs. Sarah Oxley, ot Jamestown, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Jennie Fruits.

Eftie Clore and Cora Weaver, of Wallace, were pleasant callers at Ham's on Friday of last week.

Rhoden Ham and family were the guests of Ed Smith's Monday evening and report a pleasant time.

Mrs. Amanda Ham was called to Craw fordsville this ween by the illness of her mother, Adaline Willis.

E^ton Musser and Frank Ingersol attended the basket social at Ridge Farm last Saturday evening and report the event a success.

There will be a fox drive on the farm of Elijah Clore next Saturday, Dec. 9, at 10 o'clock a. m. Everybody cordially invited to attend.

Rev. Tucker, the Methodist minister of Crawfordsville, assisted by Dr. West, the missionary, conducted a very interesting meeting at Alamo on Tuesday night of last Week.

Chamberlain's Eye and Skin Ointment Is a certain cure for Chronic Sore Eyes, Granulated Eye Lids, Sore Nipples, Piles, Eczema, Tetter, Salt Rheum and Scald Head, 25 cents per box. For sale by druggists.

TO HORSE*OWNERS.

For putting a horse in a fine healthy condition try Dr. Cadv's Condition Powders. They tone up the system, aid digestion, euro loss of appetite, relieve constipation, correct kidney disorders and destroy worms, giving new life to an old or over worked horse. 25 cents per package.

For sale by Nye & Booe, 111 North Washington street, opposite court bouse.

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I am at my old headquarters at the 9fle store, and tell your parents, children, that they are closing out their entire stock of toys, books, dolls, games etc.,

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